Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 758 612 582
Rank change year-on-year -146 -30 +25
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 54 60 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.099% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 76
10th Percentile £54,750 - £56,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £80,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -1.54% +7.54%
75th Percentile £113,750 £88,125 £122,500
90th Percentile £138,500 £111,625 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £93,750 £71,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -16.18% +12.50%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 54,621 33,577 41,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.31% 68.30% 57.98%
Number of salaries quoted 33,418 17,582 20,494
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -0.99%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 12 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -147 52 £102,500 +28.13% 60
London -87 34 £107,500 +30.30% 40
Work from Home -35 20 £107,500 +13.16% 24
UK excluding London -125 19 £93,750 +31.58% 22
North of England -48 10 £85,000 +30.77% 13
North West -23 6 £68,750 +5.77% 7
South West - 4 - - 1
Midlands -42 3 £102,500 +32.26%
Yorkshire - 3 - - 5
East Midlands -29 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - - 3
North East -67 1 £120,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 -

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 10 (18.52%) GCP
4 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
6 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (12.96%) Mimecast
6 7 (12.96%) SaaS
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.56%) Dagster
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.70%) Collibra
9 2 (3.70%) Datadog
9 2 (3.70%) Serverless
9 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Power BI
2 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.85%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 52 (96.30%) Banking
2 48 (88.89%) Finance
3 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Corporate Banking
4 11 (20.37%) Law
5 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (18.52%) Investment Banking
6 9 (16.67%) Legal
7 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (11.11%) Retail
8 3 (5.56%) Marketing
9 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Electronics
10 1 (1.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Senior
2 11 (20.37%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Graduate
3 9 (16.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Lead
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Data Scientist
5 5 (9.26%) Lead Data Scientist
5 5 (9.26%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Business Sales Executive
7 2 (3.70%) Data Migration Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Migration Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Sales Account Executive
7 2 (3.70%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) NumPy
1 8 (14.81%) Pandas
2 5 (9.26%) scikit-learn
2 5 (9.26%) XGBoost
3 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.56%) jQuery
4 3 (5.56%) PySpark
4 3 (5.56%) React
4 3 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (5.56%) Terraform
5 2 (3.70%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) LangChain
5 2 (3.70%) LangGraph
5 2 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) Spring
5 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Mobile Banking
2 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 6 (11.11%) Credit Risk
5 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.70%) Mobile Wallet
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) AI
2 22 (40.74%) Machine Learning
2 22 (40.74%) Software Engineering
3 21 (38.89%) Analytics
4 15 (27.78%) Data Science
5 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 11 (20.37%) Regulatory Compliance
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (18.52%) Computer Science
7 10 (18.52%) Generative AI
8 9 (16.67%) Data Privacy
8 9 (16.67%) DevOps
8 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
10 7 (12.96%) Agile
10 7 (12.96%) Computer Forensics
10 7 (12.96%) E-Discovery
10 7 (12.96%) Information Governance
10 7 (12.96%) Microservices
10 7 (12.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Python
2 22 (40.74%) Java
3 15 (27.78%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) C#
4 9 (16.67%) Go
4 9 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 9 (16.67%) Rust
4 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.96%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.26%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) GDPR
2 5 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) EU AI Act
3 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.70%) PMO
3 2 (3.70%) PSD2
4 1 (1.85%) GRC
4 1 (1.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) EnCase
1 7 (12.96%) FTK
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Grafana
3 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Google
2 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.96%) Cellebrite
3 7 (12.96%) Nuix
3 7 (12.96%) Relativity
4 4 (7.41%) Databricks
5 3 (5.56%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.70%) Informatica
7 1 (1.85%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (1.85%) Revolut
7 1 (1.85%) Workday